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ricTUALLt.ptc_oriVCß, Dee. 7, 'Seg. HE COMMISSIONERSfor VICTUALLING HIS MAY ESTY'4 d. hereby give Wake, That irednes.lay, the 211 t Instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders, in writing (sealed up), and treat for Three Hundred amd Fifty Tons of GENUINE OATMEAI., to be deli vered, one. half thereof in d IllOntb, — anet "thrnintetinder — in a , Month afterwards, into His Majesty's ViClualling Stores at Deptford, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, in the Proportions ander. mentioned, viz. Deptford Portsmouth Plymouth Tons 100 3i o I 4'? In he paid for ly Bills, payable, with Interest, Ninety days after dc e. Conditions of the Contrail may be seen at the Secretzrys Offre. tv , regard will be bad to any Tender in which !be Price shall not be inserted in words at length, or that shall not be delivered to the Board he/ore One o'Clotk on the said Wedlecday the 21st Inst. nor unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends to answer when called fr. VICTU4LLING..OFFICE , Dec. 14, isog. rrHE COMMISSIONERSJor VICTUALLING 7 1 . His Majesty: Navy do hereby give Notice, That on IVednesday next, the 21st instant, they will be ready' to receive Tenders in uniting (sealed up), and treat for Fift_y 'pons of good sound VIRGINIA LEAF TOBACCO, to be delivered free of duty, one Half thereof in Three, and the remainder in Weeks, into His AlaP , ty's Piduaßing Stores at the Ports, and in the proportions under.mentioncd, viz. Tons. Is 10 Deptford • Portsmouth Plymouth and to be paid for 4 . ) , Bills, payable, with Interest, ninety days after dale. The Conditions of bye Contrat7 may be seen at the Secretary's Office. Nu regard will be had to, any Tender in which the Pr ice shall sect be inserted in wards at length, or that Thal/ not be delivered to the Board befor: One o'Clock on the said Wednesday next, the tut Inst, nor unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some person on isle behalf, attends, to answer, when called Jar. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Nov. to, ,So?. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND trading to the East Indies do hereby give Nice, That a Quarto ly General Court of the said Company wihr.be held at their House, in Leadexhall-street, on Wedneiday, the 21st of December next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Foremen, Jots the purple of atclaring a Dividend ft cm Midsummer lost to Christmas next. • Will. RAMSAY, Secretary. EA. INDIA. HOUSE, N6v. 10, IS3s. MEE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY ol .11.ERCHANrs of ENGLAND Trod in: to the EAS' I . INDIES do hereby give Notice, That the Iran B ~ks of the said Comta9l's Stock will Le shut cn Tuesday, the :9th inst. at Two o'Clcck, and opened again as Tztesda) , , the 17th of January followi; , g. And that the Dividend Warrants on the Stock, due on the sth of 7anucy) , next, will be ready' to be delivered on illunday, the cf sane Month. WILLIAM RAM;;AY, Serretag. SALE OF ESTATE, &c. TO SEMINARIES. TO BE SOLD iRY PRIVATE CONTRACT, At Blackheath, Kent, ...AMOST Valuable LEASEHOLD ESTATE, constSting y af a CommorliotiS DWELLING HOUSE, containing 7"liree Rooms of very large dimensions, antfTwo imager ones on Groutid Floor ; Sleeping Room for from to ONE HUNDRED PUPILS. " • • The ,situAtion is remarkably healthy, and the accommoda tions peculiarly adapted to a large and respecttable Seminary. Proximity to the Metropolis renders this Estate equally eligible for a Banker or Merchant's Family; uniting the ad vantagesot a Tovo and Country Rcsidince. ...For pal ticul” - s apply to Mr. Wilton, painter, near the "Taragon, Blackheath. AN HISTORICAL RECITAL OF THE CAM N OF BUONAPARTE IN ITALY, iN Y I ARS 1796 AND 1797. (Continued.) VAIN j.:FECAT.3 or BUONAPIRTE TO ENTEU THE TYROL. NVq have .said that BUONAPARTE COMlllit;ed a .great fault in not pursuing the Austrians after the pattle of Lodi ; he-might •have cut off their retreat, and opened an easy passage into the Tyrol. He would liius have spared himself a long and obstinate icistan:..e on the part of the Austrians, and the destruction of a considerable part of his army. This first fault was followed by another of much greater impor!ance, to which we now proceed. BEAU'. RU arrived in the Tyrol with fifteen thou .•. . , men at most. He was convince&that, with such an inferior force, he was utterly unable to make bead against the vast'army of PUONAPARTE. What, then, was his mode of •condu& ? He took a very strong position, which supplied the defe4 of num bers. He entrenched himself near, Montebaldo and La Chiusa 5 and, •cOvered on bne flank by moun tains, and on the other by The Adige, he presented a fottnidable"front: , • .. • But an advantage infinitely greater than his posi , tion was that of having to do with BLIONAPARTE This latter, either through ignorance 'or presump -rich, or, more probably, though both, took precise ly the measures least calculated to succeed. He might have dctach;.-,4 4 cptisiclecaW;p corps of his arrtly, by ge:.:sono, towards Va.lsapua; anotlicF eerpe might have taken the road of ~,'el CornonicA, 1 rattorp especially the simele and virtnons inhabitants . , and, 44 . a_rch,lul by tye 1.1... W.-1.,.. Iseoi - Mcupied a position: ,of the rnoutttainF. - ,Our troops will maintain 3 st&icl in the Gdige - of del Sole,....iwhile,,the rest of the arniy ~ iliscipl - ine, .and nothing hing shall betaken in the coun- . A , atteroted to force thepiises ofq\lwatebaidoand La - yylnless it be.: , . Liad for in ready money.. You will Chiusa. . . receive us with hospitality, and we will treat you Already the Tyrolese, who looked forward to thi s with friendship and freternity. Do not suffer your plan-of. operatiott, Were in. a state of the-greateat selvg to be led into error by the agents of Austria. alarm, and removing, with all possible diligence, the - In &little time, The Court of Vienna, compelled to magazines of the army from the Italian into the make peace, will restore to the people the privileges German part of the Tyrol, \yell aware that BEAU- which she has: usurped, and to Europe the tranquil , LIEU, with such a handful of men, could not defend liry which she has broken." , so many points at once. But BUONAPARTE, for- This Proclamation, artful and insidious as it is , getting the measures which prudence diC tated, clear- produced no effect on the frank and sit - nple minds of ly evinced that something more than impetuosity t h e Tyrolians. They knew what were the respect is necessary to constitute a good General : he was and love of the French for the people. They knew positively determined to force the passes of Monte- what had been the particular tenderness of the baldo and Chiusa. French army for the simple and virtuous inhabitants On these posts he made vigorous and daily at of the mountains of Swisserland. They knew what tacks, which were constantly repelled with such an was the severe discipline of Republican soldiers, insurmountable perseverance, that, from the middle commanded by BUONAPARTE ; and they appreciated of June to the end of July, the Austrians yielded with justice the fraternity and frie,ndship which were not an inch of ground. 'BUONAPARTE lost an amaz offered to them. They remained, then, faithful to ing number of men ; and it is a feel known to thou- i their legitimate Sovereign, and preferred continuing sands, that the Adige for a long time was covered the subjeals of the Emperor of Austria to tasting the with the carcases of , the French, and that, during fruits of that precious liberty which the Corsican many months, the inhabitants of the Veronese would presented to them with . so much sincerity ! i not touch the fish of that river. BUONAPOTE might BUONAPARTE never forgave them for it ; and he console himself for this loss ; he, who from the has enjoyed the brutal satisfaCtion of . transferring moment of his entrance into the military career, ac- them from a domination to which they were accus customed himself to reckon the lives of those whom . totned, and with which they were pleased, to the he commanded as nothing, but he also lost time, and odious yoke of one of those new-fangled Kings, to this was very fatal to him. The Tyrolese, who had whom his Gaulish Majesty has given a disgraceful been struck with consternation at first, and who crown, and who, under the name of Monarchs, are fancied they saw the enemy at their doors, had time in effe& the despicable slaves of an Upstart and to rise in a body, and to organise themselves after 1 an Usurper ! the manner of their country; and the army of WURMSER had also time to match to the reinforce- To 6e continued. ment of BEAULIEU. To obviate the etfeEls of this unpardonable fault, BUOSAPARTE had recourse to what the Historian'of the Italian Campaign calls the arms of Proc.lama- lions. It will not be amiss to cite his words: " With a view of penetrating into the Tyrol, he wished. to have his march preceded by a Manifesto, which might procure him partizans in that difficult country. This is one of his modes of beating his enemies; and few Generals have managed the arms of Proclamations with more dexterity than himself ; we cannot have a better proof'of it than is furnished by that which he addressed to• the warlike tants of those mountains." In truth, few Generals have issued more Procla mations than BUONAPARTE ; ;1)(1 we readily admit that no General, in our recolleetion, ta.,s ueri%cd more advantage 'from them. His panegyrist gi%es him great credit for them ; ‘Ae beg leave to airier from him in this point, as we discover in his use of this weapon much less dexterity than peifidy and villainy : for what, after all, is the - basis of those Proclamations with which he has inundated Europe and Egypt ? He constantly begins by announcing liberty to the People. It is this cry•Of liberty which is his principal talisman; acry which the factious have.always employed to deceive and stir up the people; a cry, which was the first _signal of the French Revolution; a cry, which provoked andex )cited the fury and the unbounded outrage by which it was accompanied ! A rare proof of, talents, to avail himself of a cry which has served all the mis creants who have laboured to produce revolutions. since the existence 01. civil societies Accursed be he who first uttered this cry in an organized society! He was, beyond all question, a seditious - and a pro fligate villain ! In 'hat, we repeat, consist the Proclamations of BUONAPARTE ? In promising every where to respect property, and respe&ing it no where ! In promising i to pay for every thing in specie, when he resolVes • - to pay for nothing, and to carry off all the money . of the country !. In promising to maintain the striCt est discipline, while his troops are authorised by himself to commit every kind of violence and out rage ! t 'No; Proclamations of this kind do no credit to a General,; they are rather a shame and a reproach to him, at least in those countries where honour and integrity are yet counted for something. put how, You will say, could these Proclamations baye such an effect, if they were aliays false and deceitful ? The question has been long since an swered by Mr. Burtxp. " The credulity of the people," says he, " is as inexhaustible as the villainy of the wicked However it be, BUONAPARTE dispersed his Pro ' clamation in the Tyrol, and we will admit, with the historian, that it was-drawn up with more than his nsnal address. It ran thus " The French army respects and loves all people, ':'his cry of liberty will n,ie day be raised against Boo rt APA ; nor is day, ' perhaps, fat distant, since he has now reached the summit of power. Then he who has so often .availed himself of this cry to stir up the people against their Kings; Will see with what •L:ility and what success this weapon is turned acaimit him. The seeds of a goner ;l' insurrectior are, in every heart ; am! 7 - 11 where, so deeply rooted as 'in 'Fiance itself, the 'pritiLipal seat of oppression ant! despotism. The ex pl osi ch will sudden ; a l o w aAd i h2 redible patzeace will bi'ronvert;%l into the most long, fury. The Eye huirated tho*and baNi: nets which enaircle ttils jealous liespot,:"will not secure bun frcim the fatal 'bloW ; apd it is more, than probahle that me 7 Of them will tcfrpinatelli:: (lesth'iiiips and Ohout:l4lcareti.;. MAILS. Gottetthurgh, c Dublin. Dux—t Gotten burgh, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS I>A y AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - 661; Red. Ann. - - 6;i HIGH WATER AT I..O:•*DON BRIDGE TO-MOR- ROW. Morning, 39 min. after 4. j 4fternoon, 58 min. after 4. THE SUN. SOLAM QUIS DICYRI FALSUM AunsAT LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 180$. Tins morning a Mail from Gottenburgh arrived, which brings intelligence of an Armistice having been concluded between the S\Vedes and Russians. It appears that, notwithstanding the bravery and perseverance of the Swedish troops, they were un able to '.!; - ",,iose' an effelual resistance to the im mense supbriority,. in point of numbers, which their enemies possessed over them, and a' Convention has been agreed upon, by which , the Swedes consent to evacuate Finland,, The t0110 ., A - ingre the official detatls given upon this sobje& : STooKtioLn, DEG. 6.--; , My last report was on the loth of November, and was dispatched from Bra hestad by' Captain 1(11411-PELT. Your Majesty's army under my command has since retreated to Py hajocki and Yppiri, where the Russians formed an , attack on the rear, turned the left flank near Merrijarue, advanced again to Pelis- , kaski to take the army in the rear, and thus com pelled the army to fall, tigok to Patjocki, and took on the 17th a position near ,Sykiijocki. Ruvolai and Pausola were occupied by our troops; but in consequence of the enerny's-corps having been rein forced to 20,000 men, furnished' with 60 pieces of heavy ordnance, and your Majesty's army having been reduced to 7000 men,• by losses in the field and sickness, it became impossible to maintain our position, and I thought it advisable to open, again a negotiation for an armistice, the result of which was the Convention which I hereby have the honor to lay at your Majesty's feet, Mewl:my, Nov., 24, xsoB. C. N. KLESCKER, General in Chief of the Northern Finnish Army. CONVENTION Betwgen the Royal Swedish Army in North Finland, and the Imperial Russian Army,—By virtue of the powers vested in us, we, the undersigned, have agreed and stipulated the following Articles : Art. T. The Royal Swedish Army is immediately, after the ratification of this Convention,, to take up a position along the frontiers of the distriEt of Ulea borg, from Kerni to Porkauara. Kerni in conse quence remains in tUe hands of the Russians. 11. The Swedish Army is to evacuate the town of Uleaborg within ten days next ensuing the date of thil Convention, and the Russian troops, are to take possession of the said town on the 30th of November. The other parts of the country, which •., are to be given up to the Russia . ns, thall be evacu .ated according to the agreemepts yet to be con eluded' between the contracting parties. 111. The rear of the Swedish Arn;y stull return by the route agreed upon, and whatever cannot be yetritited 117 the ,Svreiii s sh (runt s in their retre24, shall be considered as a good and lawful prize. IV. The Swedish army binds itself not to destroy or distribute among the inhabitants, nar sell the magazines which they shall bu necessitated to sur• render. V. The Swedish troops are not to take with them from Ulcaborg, or other places to be surrendered , any Civil Officer, nor any articles or goods belong'° to the provinces, VI. The Swedish Army is to send back 21 1 Clergymen, Civil Officer?, and Inhabitants of the places evacuated by their troops, provided it be done by the desire or with the consent of the said persons. VII. This Convention shall be ratified by the respe6tive Generals in Chief of both Armies, an. 4l the ratifications exchanged to-morrow night. BARON ALDERCRUTZ, Major-Gen- COUNT KAMINSKI, Lieut.-Gen. Olkjoc.l4, 7 -18th November, 608. Ratified the 8-20th November, 180. COUNT BUXHOWDEN, General in Chief of the Imperial Russian ArPY• Proposed additional A-rticles of the Convection 4 ' l°4 cluded between the Royal Swedish Arail North Finland, and the Imperial Russian Aro = Art. I. The armistice concluded belweesi tbo two armies is to continue one month next ensuing the day on which the Swedish army crosses ill° frontiers of the distrift of Uleaborg, or until the lit 4 January, 1809 ; and notice of the cessation of th e armistice, shall be given at least fifteen days Irf° re hostilities are recommenced. Durrng the Armistice, the Imperial RusliP l Troops are not to cross the river Kenai. C. N. KLucKse, • Head-Quarters, Liartugo, the zoth Nov. iBoS. General Of Infantry, and General in Chief 9 1 Royal Swedish Army in Finland. GENERAL,--I have the honour to inform y oti that the Convention, which was yesterday concluded' has been ratified by his Excellency, G:eneral Count Buxnown i EN, and I shall now transmit it to Ca` ll. PUT;NKIN, in order that the exchange of the 011 . 61 cation may be effat eed. With regard to the a rt9lsl, tice in 9uestion, I have his Excellency's cou 01 . 1 : , w acquaint you, that although he must decline conclusion of a formal armistice, yet he engag es 41 word of • honour, that he will not re-corel. Pena • ' 1, fort • hostile operations against the f,iweclish army 'g e r the expiration of fourteen days after the Swe dish 11 army shall have taken up the position stipulate d I • the above Convention, in hopes. that no opefati will be commenced on your part within t 1 0 " tine. I have the honour, &c. Count KAMIrl'7 Brahestad, Nov.l-40, 1808. (Stockholm Gazette, Dec. 6, 111084) • His Ma.!EsTY is eltperEted in town to-morr - : ar, • hold a Court at the Queen's Palace. thi° Most of the Ministers are' expected in to,Ace,'' day, to hold a Cabinet Council at the Y - 1 ) 10 The Duke of Ypßi . will hold a public day' Jay, at his Office in the Horse Guards. to The fifty-two days for returning the wry_ elect a Temporal Peer of Ireland, in the r ()° , the late Lord CLANRICARDE, expired on ore when the Earl of C.L.4tscAa'rY was declared bye j Clerk of the crown and Hanaper, duly ele for Fifty-one Peers only voted, of whom fifty vti r e ol . Lord Cr.m.;cAlm, and one for the earl of M°t/". CAsget.L.OP fitly - 0 On Thursday 27 Sail of Transports ha ii 4 board the 14th regiment of Light Dragoons, 311- N r . Sail of light Ttatisports under convoy of his ;of jesty's Ship Semiramis, of 36 guns, Capt. GRA N :b(s' sailed from Fahriouth for Cot unua • kie I 4th 0 41 goons proceed as a reintorc-tnent, if they are P a to necessary, and the empty Transports are in,coderof bring off Sir DAVID LINAIRI)'S army, as circuiost3. for may require. An order was sent down exP re r s s to Cumtnissioner BoweN, of the Transport _l3°.;enn' .proceed immediately for the coast of Spare; K it e . d on sequence of which, he immediately entit ar gl e e; board the Agent's Ship Zephyr. Th e ,hui': e ye proceeded down Channel, with a fine vtettie from the Northward. Tie disembarkatio n °j . 14th Dragoons, when in Spain, is intro ni t eci ri t t ' or io o charge of Lieutenant: WILBRAHAM, a Officer. Several transports are ordered to Cork, WI)? oats and forage to Spain, for the use of our ca vP'4; A considerable embarkakation of artiller y will V. place at Portsrnuuth to-day fur Spain. fe %4 The. late Earl of LIVERPOOL was among th e e a remaining Members of the staunch ol d Tory bretore, men who have such a knowledge of human 013;55ea as it has appeared in all ages, as to be duly irnVr with the superior value of an hereditarotor'.ej y M s Government, compared with every other sPe e ' t national polity. The dreadful consequences bridled democracy were so fatally manifest ' P i t oo French Revolution, that it might be thioght t1),16e Tory Llt creed would have grown into fashion, 10A"0_,e however, by the improved politica l knowleNlo the times, particularly as the world has sev ° is always likely to be the end of all democrai a o ` r e) cesses—the elevation of some obsc ure advllt and all the rigours of military despotism.. t t od It was last night reported, that an accw -111 .0c 0 ; been received, via Holland, of a dreadful 0 ` having taken place in Madrid at the e ll ll4 this month, in which several of the French G h ej t ' lost their lives, and nearly 10,000 trPoP s, , -u c ireo"; the ,people were at tenth overpowered, wi t ` l . , t , re'i t o u n l t t e u a g u l This . statement was pretendeu 9f a letter trona Friday last. • , •